I love frederik Pohl

[DanSteph]

I just finished reading again all the gateway serie book
from Pohl ("Gateway"; "Beyond the Blue Event Horizon";
"Heechee Rendezvous" and  "The Annals of the Heechee")

The heechee's saga is just a must read I love Pohl as
much as Asimov (in a different way)
There are some consideration about universe and big bang
in those book  that are really interesting (and almost true
according to last science discovery about big bang & co).

Anyone's fan also ?

Dan

[omegax]

havnt heard of pohl , havnt read much asimov yet, but ive read alot of heinlein's stuff

[DanSteph]

I'v read a lot of heinlein also....
don't miss Asimov he his one of the best with Arthur C. Clarke, Pohl etc etc.

Dan

[Dave Klein]

Hehe, never read much of Pohl....it's funny though, I was cruising the neighborhood the other day,
stopped in a bookstore, and found a copy of an old collection of Arthur C. Clarke short stories that
I had last read as a kid about 20 years ago!  So I bought it, read the stories, and was just as
enthralled as I was back then

I guess the classics would be my favourite three--Clarke, Asimov, and Heinlein.  Side note--I have
a first edition hardcover copy of "Stranger In A Strange Land"--signed by Heinlein and his wife!!  
My dad picked it up for $1.00 at a high school book fair in NYC.  Unbelieveable.....

Speaking of sci-fi stuff, has anyone read Stanislaw Lem's story that Solaris was based on?  I've
seen both the Tarkovsky original movie and the recent Clooney remake, but I haven't read the
Lem story yet....

Dave

[AndrewG]

I loved Gateway..I didn't like most of Pohls more modern efforts, mainly because I thought he was getting too hung up
on cosmology (and cosmology I didn't like).
My favorites are Niven (for known space) and Smith (for just about anything)

[omegax]

another good auther is john barnes, some of his stuff about meme's is just plain scary, and his
ideas sound (more modern author), except maybe the method of time travle in one book, but still.

[Dave Klein]

I gotta say that it's so much nicer to follow an off-Orbiter-topic discussion about books than about
politics.  Thanks Dan for "keeping it real" here.....

Dave

[Ben Jacobs]

I think I have only read one book of Pohl's, "Narabedla" which I liked.  Another great author who
writes good science fiction is Stephen Baxter.  Some of you guys might espeacially like "Voyage"
about an alternate history in which we go to Mars in the 70's.  It even includes nice drawings of
the craft as well as the flight plan and talks about nuclear powered rockets.  A decent read about
spaceflight.